prendre mal
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Verb
prendre mal (first-person singular present prenc mal, first-person singular preterite prenguí mal, past participle pres mal); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
Pronunciation
Verb
- (transitive, informal) to take badly, to take offence at, to take the wrong way
- Antonym: prendre bien
- (intransitive) to catch cold
- Synonym: prendre froid
- 1999, Serge Brussolo, Le Manoir des sortilèges, Paris: Le Livre de Poche, published 2001, →ISBN, page 133:
- Faute de bois, il leur faudrait encore passer une nuit sans chaleur. Il commençait à redouter de prendre mal.
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